The sports streaming giant kicked off 2020 by revealing some of their record consumption stats from 2019. Despite boxing being the least watched sport ( see consumption table below) the highly anticipated rematch between heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua and Andy Ruiz Jr. was the most-streamed event on DAZN in 2019.
Although the Top Ten list is dominated by Football ( soccer), boxing is still holding its own as producing some of the biggest consumed events.. Infact 4 of the top 10 most streamed events on DAZN were indeed boxing events. 3 of those were in the top 5. Ruiz vs. Joshua II , Canelo vs. Kovalev , KSI vs. Logan Paul , Canelo vs. Jacobs were all in the top ten. Having 2 events on the list makes Canelo DAZN’s number 1 Boxing star. Joshua Ruiz 1 did not make the list.
Top 10 Most-Streamed Events on DAZN in 2019
1. Ruiz vs. Joshua II (Dec. 7)
2. UEFA Champions League: Tottenham vs. Liverpool (June 1)
3. UEFA Champions League: Liverpool vs. Barcelona (May 7)
4. Canelo vs. Kovalev (Nov. 2)
5. KSI vs. Logan Paul II (Nov. 9)
6. UEFA Champions League: Tottenham vs. Bayern Munich (Oct. 1)
7. Serie A: Milan vs. Internazionale (Sept. 21)
8. UEFA Champions League: Ajax vs. Tottenham (May 8)
9. UEFA Champions League: Barcelona vs. Liverpool (May 1)
10. Canelo vs. Jacobs (May 4)
Its evident DAZN’s monumental growth in consumption over the past year is a reflection of sports’ shift from linear to OTT distribution, DAZN saw record consumption in 2019 with more than a half billion hours streamed (507 million), an increase of 98 percent from the 256 million hours streamed in 2018. Pretty much all of these were soccer with 314.6 million hours ., followed by baseball, motorsports and american football. In terms of consumption boxing fell short of every other sport with only 22.6 million hours comsumed in 2019. Nothing compared footballs 314 million hours.
Consumption by Sport
1. Football: 314.6 million hours
2. Baseball: 38.1 million hours
3. Motorsport: 37.9 million hours
4. American Football: 37.2 million hours
5. Boxing: 22.6 million hours
DAZN is the largest, fastest growing global sports streaming service. Since launching in 2016, DAZN is now live in nine countries across four continents, including Austria, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the United States.
***Top 10 rankings are based on the number of live and on-demand streams per event of more than one minute.
